Foldable truck.



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v truck embodying my invention. 2 5- UNITED STATES' Patented January 31, 1905.

. PATENT OFFICE.

SEDGEFIELD THOMPSON, OF EUREKA, CALIFORNIA.

FOLDABLE TRUCK.

SPECIFIGATIOforming part of Letters Patent N 0. 781,243, dated January 31, 1905.

i Application iiled October 12, 1.904. Serial No. 228,094.

pact, durable, practical truck for the use of eX-y pressmen and others in the .easy handling of trunks,l boxes, and like bulky packages, and which truck can be folded into small compass and stowed into a wagon, and which also can easily be run over carpets or polished ioors without danger of injury to the latter.

'Ihe invention consists of the partsand the construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, havving reference to the accompanying drawings,

in whicl Figure l is a side elevation' of a foldable Fig. 2 is 'a top plan View of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view.

A A represent two iat 4platform-sections hinged together on their upper side, as shown at 2, so that the two sections `may be folded over one upon the other into parallel planes or opened out into the same horizontal plane. The outer ends of each section are supported on swiveled, preferably rubber-shod, casters 3, and suitable means may be provided on the under side of the two sections and adjacent to their meeting edges to maintain the sections in alinement when the device is being operated as a truck.

' In the present instance I have shown the hasp members 4 5, the lone, 4, secured to the section A and having a U-shaped end ange 6, with which the downwardly-turned iiange 7 on the hasp' member 5 is adapted to engage. Y The member 5 is pivoted to the section A land is worked back and forth either way to engagethe hasp 4 vby means of the thumbpiece 8.

The easiness with which the part 5 may be turned can be regulated by means of anut on the pivot-bolt 9;

Since this truck when opened out is usually not over twenty-two inches long by about nine inches wide, comparatively little strain is brought on the middle portion of the platform over the hinge, theprincipal weight be- .a loaded wagon.

, Where the platform-sections are made of wood, the ends may be reinforced on top by the metal straps 10, and in order to lessen the jar when a trunk or box is laid on the truck v the corners of thesections von top may be provided with leather or equivalent pads 11.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,- f y 1. A truck having foldable platform-sections hinged on their upper adjacent edges, and adapted to be folded into parallel planes and means on' the under side ofthe sections for maintaining them in alinement.

'2. yA foldable truck havinghinged sections foldable into parallel planes, and interlocking means, on their underside to maintain them in alinement, said locking means comprising a member on one section having a substantially U-shaped end ange, and a movable part on the other section engageable with said iange.`

3. A lfoldable truck having hinged sections foldable into parallel planes, and interlocking meanson their under side to maintain them in alinement, said locking meansv comprising a memberon one section having a substantially U-shaped end iiange and a pivoted plate on the other section having a downwardlyturned flange engaging said U-shaped flange.

4. A truck having foldable platform-sections hinged on their upper adjacent edges whereby the platform may be folded into iny hand in presence of two subscribing witsubstantially parallel planes, rubber-Shod casmesses.

ters supporting the sections, means on the SEDGEFIELD THOMPSON. under siole of the sections to maintain them I 5 in alinernent and leather or like pads on the VitneSSes:

upper surface of the sections. JAMES YUILL,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set A. W. HILL. 

